Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area suffered badly during the time of the plague which gave rise to the legend of the Butterstone . |
| 2 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 3 | It is only during the time of waiting , wrote Harsnet , during the time without hope , that these things assume significance , only during the time without hope that one is conscious of them , that one remembers them with despair , that one anticipates them with dread . |
| 4 | It is only during the time of waiting , wrote Harsnet , during the time without hope , that these things assume significance , only during the time without hope that one is conscious of them , that one remembers them with despair , that one anticipates them with dread . |
| 5 | Greek became the lingua franca of this region and remained so during the time of the Roman empire . |
| 6 | So for the time of the visit there was a truce . |
| 7 | The speed at which they have moved is commendable , especially as the time in which an appeal can be made is ticking away . |
| 8 | With dark hair and moustache , he was always well dressed , regardless of the time of day . |
| 9 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 10 | Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords . |
| 11 | Jack avoided being a witness to these scenes much of the time by residing in college . |
| 12 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 13 | Long before the time of Aristoxenus , some of the most acute Greek thinkers had found that the concept of time was difficult to reconcile with their idea of rationality . |
| 14 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 15 | But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution . |
| 16 | The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement . |
| 17 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 18 | But it suited the generations of North Sea fishermen who had used it — perhaps from the time of their Viking ancestors . |
| 19 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |
| 20 | In some numbers he wrote half the contents ; in others , especially at the time of an operation on his eyes for glaucoma , little . |
| 21 | It is not possible to foresee , especially at the time of acquisition , exactly what information a specimen might hold . |
| 22 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 23 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 24 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 25 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 26 | They claim that he became the Messiah only at the time of his baptism — that is , his anointment or coronation . |
| 27 | Exercise raises the metabolic rate , not only at the time of activity , but also for a little while afterwards . |
| 28 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 29 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |
| 30 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |